Manrunivun

Manrunivun is a fictional term used in speculative fiction and constructed languages to describe a social-technical framework that blends memory, movement, and governance. In its in-universe usage, manrunivun denotes how communities coordinate knowledge production and decision-making through ritualized collective action and the preservation of memory across generations.

The word is treated as a compound from two in-world morphemes, roughly interpreted in the fiction as 'mind' and 'path' or 'network.' Texts within the universe present multiple origin narratives, from elder councils to syncretic post-collapse traditions, reflecting the concept’s adaptability across different cultures depicted in the works.

Practices associated with manrunivun include public gatherings, memory-sharing circles, and choreographed movements that encode procedural knowledge into performance. Decision-making emerges through deliberative sessions conducted as communal routines, with memory accuracy checked by ritual recitations and cross-referenced histories. The framework emphasizes distributed agency and resilience rather than centralized authority.

Within the fictional world, manrunivun functions as a central symbol of communal identity and continuity. Critics and scholars within the fiction analyze its implications for power, tradition, and innovation, noting how the performative aspect can foster solidarity while risking exclusion of dissenting voices at scale.

See also: Constructed language, Worldbuilding, Collective memory, Social organization in fiction.